Arnold Böcklin, 1880 - Island of the Dead - fine art print

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Original information about the work of art by the museum (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

In 1880 Marie Berna, the American-born widow of a German diplomat, visited Böcklin in Florence, where she saw an unfinished first version of this painting (now in the Kunstmuseum Basel) on his easel. She commissioned the present work as a memorial to her husband, requesting the additions of the draped coffin and the shrouded female figure. Prodded by his dealer, Böcklin painted three other versions by 1886. This romantic image would become one of Germany's most beloved, widely circulated through poor reproductions as well as a related etching of 1890 by Max Klinger (1857–1920).

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In 1880 the male artist Arnold Böcklin made this artpiece Island of the Dead. The artwork was made with the dimensions: 29 x 48 in (73,7 x 121,9 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on wood. The piece of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Reisinger Fund, 1926 (license: public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Reisinger Fund, 1926. What is more, the alignment is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width. Arnold Böcklin was a male painter from Switzerland, whose style can be classified as Realism. The artist was born in the year 1827 in Basel and deceased at the age of 74 in 1901.

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